[liberationtech] Introducing The GovLab Digest: covering innovations in Governance, delivered weekly

2015-02-13 Thread Maria Hermosilla
Hi! If you and your colleagues are not yet familiar with The GovLab Digest, please take a moment to review the current issue http://eepurl.com/bee691. The Digest, delivered electronically every week, is a carefully curated gathering of the most important new developments and findings related to

[liberationtech] At Stanford on Feb 24: Tech Privacy Roundtable

2015-02-13 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Paula Cristina Salazar psala...@stanford.edu Stanford’s Public Policy Program is pleased to announce its second quarterly Science and Technology Policy Roundtable titled Technology and Privacy: How can policy encourage innovation while preserving privacy rights? on Tuesday, February 24.

[liberationtech] Please join 20 MPs for two events on tech4democracy

2015-02-13 Thread Daniel Swislow
I wanted to pass along information about two exciting chances next week to engage with a senior delegation of 20 members of parliament from 11 countries around the use of ICTs to enhance governance. The National Democratic Institute http://www.ndi.org (NDI), sponsored by the Department of State,

[liberationtech] [SPAM:#] CFP: Surveillance and Citizenship (Deadline 15 Feb)

2015-02-13 Thread Michael Rogers
Surveillance and Citizenship State-Media-Citizen Relations After the Snowden Leaks Conference and Workshop in collaboration with Unlike Us 18-19 June 2015 Cardiff University, UK Speakers include: Ben Wizner (ACLU, Edward Snowden’s lawyer) Caspar Bowden (former Chief Privacy Adviser for

Re: [liberationtech] secure voice options for china?

2015-02-13 Thread ITechGeek
I know a number of VPN providers have a mode for hiding their OpenVPN connections (the VPN provider I have calls it Chameleon and says it's proprietary and you have to use their software). The solution that I personaly think might be better, is using Mumble in half duplex mode over TOR.

Re: [liberationtech] secure voice options for china?

2015-02-13 Thread Nathan of Guardian
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015, at 04:06 PM, Brian Behlendorf wrote: And this is why even people who care about their privacy still use Skype. Is it really that hard? 2-step process below. 1) Setup VPN Astrill and Express VPNs are both working in China, as of today. https://www.astrill.com/